an agent that elevates the mood and prevents or alleviates psychological depression. Antidepressant drugs are sometimes used as adjuvant analgesic to relieve neuropathic pain. Heterocyclic and tricyclic classifications refer to antidepressants with specific chemical structures. Other classes of antidepressants include MAO inhibitors and serotonin reuptake inhibitors (e.g., Prozac).

usually a prescription medication, an anti-depressant taken to relieve clinical symptoms of depression. It turns out that many anti-depressants also help OCD and TS sufferers. Examples are prozac, anafranil, and paxil.

Antidepressant is a medication designed to treat or alleviate the symptoms of clinical depression. They are given to elevate mood, counter suicidal thoughts, and increase the effectiveness of psychotherapy and also used in the treatment of cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, and sleep paralysis.

A class of medications most commonly used in the treatment of depression. Most antidepressants also reduce REM sleep. In sleep disorders, they are used to control cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, and sleep paralysis.

Any type of medicine used to treat depression. One family of antidepressants, tricyclic antidepressants, has been shown to also be pain relievers in nerve pain conditions such as post-herpetic neuralgia, even if the patient is not depressed. When used to ease the pain of post-herpetic neuralgia, an antidepressant usually is prescribed in a dose too low to treat depression.

An antidepressant, in the most common usage, is a medication taken to alleviate clinical depression or dysthymia ('milder' depression). Several groups of drugs are particularly associated with the term, notably MAOIs and tricyclics (whose serendipitous discovery and psychiatric use dates from the 1950s) as well as SSRIs and more recent variations developed by pharmaceutical companies. These medications are now amongst the most commonly prescribed by psychiatrists and general practitioners, and their effectiveness and adverse effects are the subject of many studies and competing claims.